An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our existing respiratory nursing team at Arrowe Park Hospital.

Our specialist nurses are highly valued members of the multidisciplinary team and are integral to the specialist care of Respiratory patients referred to the service.

We are looking for an individual to join the team who is passionate about delivering excellence in patient care and someone with the ability to help develop a service fit for the 21stcentury.

Main duties of the job

Please see Job overview & attached Job description for further information about the Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist position available with WUTH.

About us

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as competent and caring staff by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the Northwest of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high-quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider Northwest footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide, and our financial turnover is in excess of �337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you ready for a new challenge within a well-established respiratory team dedicated to providing excellence in respiratory clinical care?

Are you an enthusiastic nurse with evidence of prior respiratory experience? Could you work collaboratively within the wider multidisciplinary respiratory team, across both hospital and community settings?

Do you have excellent communication and IT skills and can you demonstrate a desire to develop the skills and knowledge required to manage and educate patients with a spectrum of complex respiratory disease?

If the answer is yes, we would really welcome your application.

Charmaine Amin - Respiratory CNS charmaineamin@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse

Desirable

• Independent non-medical prescriber
• Hospital and community experience
• Experience in severe asthma

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Degree level education relevant to field or study.
• Post graduate qualification of study in speciality.
• National and local audit skills.

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification.
• Qualification in clinical examination and diagnostics.
• Master's level education.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Committed to multidisciplinary working and service development.

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential

• Significant experience at Senior Level.
• Politically aware of National Guidance and other local and National issues relating to speciality.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable experience and expertise with chronic respiratory disease across disease trajectory.

Desirable

• Writing protocols, guidelines and patient information leaflets.
• Research skills

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to facilitate and implement change.
• Effective time management skills.
• Skilled to work across professional boundaries.

Desirable

• Record of achievement in care service delivery and change management process.

Employer details

Employer name

Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Arrowe Park Hospital

Wirral

CH49 5PE

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408-24-729